HOPArt Education

Welcome to the HOPArt Education Store

HOPArt Education is open and has just started. It will build slowly as I complete and process new projects to add to the Store. I am changing the site to an Education Store rather than just an art history site and there will be PDF digital downloads as products to buy.

HOPArt Education will be a resource for teachers and students in school, at home or travelling on the road. Digital downloads are available with information and lesson ideas. Since memory works best with pictures, I will endeavour to mostly show pictures with descriptions and labels rather than text.

Topics will cover selected areas of

Art, History and Science

There will be a section in the Menu called Class Projects which will be a Post on each of the latest Projects. It will include an introduction and overview of the contents available in the PDF Digital Downloads.

Celtic Art continues on HOPArt

The Celtic Art already on site will continue to be available and pages can still be printed out for free. Later I will apply the Celtic art designs and information to ideas and activities for the classroom.

I have changed the structure so that Celtic Art, Viking Art and Pictish Art are all grouped into Art of the Past on the Menu. It is the art before Ancient Art and the rise of Classical Art in Greece and Rome.

The Art Galleries are the same and contains artwork drawings with the Celtic style animals, birds, horses, knotwork, spirals, ornaments and figures and some Pictish symbols.

Medieval Art on the Menu includes the Age of Faith and the all of the content on the Book of Kells, the magnificent illuminated manuscript and other works from that period.

There is a Post on the Bayeux Tapestry and the role of the monasteries in the Dark Ages. In the Book of Kells section the artwork of the illuminated manuscripts is discussed with example drawings. Art changed with the conversion to Christianity and the monks worked out a way to hold true to their own pagan beliefs and also satisfy the Church rules. The Book of Kells is an exceptional and unique work of art which shows how the monks worked around the problem of realism by using a different pattern of thought.

First Project

Evolution

This seems like a good place to start.To go back to the beginning and look at how humans and animals have evolved over time.

There is an Evolution in Steps chart which is a picture flow chart from a single cell to the Modern Day Human. This helps to get an overview of how life on Earth began and how it travelled through 3.8 billion years to today. It was not quite as linear in reality of course. Developments and changes went back and forth and changed. The focus is on human evolution however and, later in other projects the human angle will be expanded to explore a little deeper. Darwin will be looked at in more detail as well.

There is also a Classification Chart and Picture Box Worksheets plus a Classification Chart that breaks down the Classification System into eight groups with picture box drawings.

For further information go to the Menu above and click to open the Shop. Each product has a preview picture of the document that is available for download. Thumbnails underneath expand on the content inside that document.

The digital downloads can be printed out on most printers. PDF files can be opened in a wide range of programs or they can be opened in Acrobat. It is best to choose Fit to Page in the Print Dialog box when printing. The documents are all A4 size which is standard and 210 x 297 mm or 8.3 x 11.7 inches. The hard copy can be photocopied for students to use. I hope you find something useful and inspiring for the classroom.